I have all these 1 gig sticks and am wondering if there’s anything useful I can do with them?
I have all these 1 gig sticks and am wondering if there’s anything useful I can do with them?
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Sell it on ebay for a few bucks or recycle it.
>useful
I wish, I have a shoe box of them
Give to ewaste recycling
If video games have taught me anything, it’s that you have enough here to craft two DDR4 or one DDR5 stick.
Eat it, it will make your D bigger
Make a wreath.
burn them in a pit of gasoline or a safer alternative is sell them.
Hold onto em. There’s a chance it’ll be worth more someday in the future, if not (most likely) you only wasted half a shoebox worth of closet space.
…or blow them up
We bought a smaller white Christmas tree and hung the old ram, cpu, and other accessories on it, and used a cd disc as the star.
Sell them. The retro pc market is good and lots of people are using older systems for NAS and home server stuff. Post some individually and some as x2, x4 kits if you have enough matching. Post the speed as well as the capacity to make the sale easier.
Keychains to hand out at christmas
Sell them as keychains to macho car guys and tell them it’s from destroyed Toyotas.
Make a stop motion video cooking them like bacon
sell them on ebay, lots of places still need them.
Clean it, mount it to a board, and frame it. Old computer parts are cool.
stick them in your ass
Build a Christmas tree out of it
That brings back some old memories.
Would make a crunchy salad.
Feed a protogen
You are now “future proofed”
Tape 3 of thwm together and you got cheap DDR6
Build a Gundam
Plant it in the garden to grow more DDR2 of course.
I doubt ~~anyone~~ most people would want it but if you have a local shop that resells electronics I would donate it.
Post-apocalyptic bikini
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If you can find suppliers that send PC to third-wold countries as donations, they will be willing to take it, if you want to give it for free.
Electrical tape it together, make 1 stick of DDR28
Make a memory wreath.
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You can upload it to those DOWNLOAD MORE RAM sites and share it with other less fortunate users, just in time for Christmas
Electronic recycling is really important to reduce mining requirements, there are usually rare metals in electronics. That said, hard to do depending on you country.
DDR2 1G ? Even charities won’t accept it
You could put them in a chemical bath to dissolve all the gold and sell it after you have accumulated a lot of gold. However, RileRed tried this and it didn’t go well. You’ll make more money selling them on ebay than stripping the gold.
Two DDR2 = One DDR4… 😉
Give it to a hungry protogen
Make a Christmas wreath out of it. Or a Christmas tree.
Insert it into your gf’s pc
Keep it as a memory.
Sharpen them into throwing knives and police your city as the RAM-Man
make a big 12 gig DDR24 out of them